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Synonyms for Siege:
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- 77 ,
- 911 ,
- civil disobedience .
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v.
• beleaguer- vex .
Other synonyms:
- besiege ,
- defense ,
- investment .
- beset .
- invest ,
- lay siege to .
- bout .
Other relevant words:
- beleaguer ,
- Battering train ,
- Besetment ,
- Carronade ,
- Falconet ,
- Firearms ,
- Jingal ,
- Leaguer ,
- Lorication ,
- Mitrailleur ,
- Mitrailleuse ,
- Murrion ,
- Pederero ,
- Salade ,
- Scutum ,
- Storming ,
- access ,
- adjoin ,
- aegis ,
- agitation ,
- agriterrorism ,
- anarchy ,
- annex ,
- apostasy ,
- apron ,
- arena ,
- argue ,
- armet ,
- armor ,
- artillery ,
- asphyxiate ,
- assail ,
- backplate ,
- bar ,
- barricade ,
- barrier ,
- basilisk ,
- bassinet ,
- battery ,
- battle array ,
- battlefield ,
- be around ,
- beleaguering ,
- bench ,
- besieged ,
- besieging ,
- bioterrorism ,
- bitterns ,
- blitz ,
- blitzkrieg ,
- board ,
- boarding ,
- bombard ,
- bottle up ,
- bound ,
- box in ,
- boycott ,
- breastplate ,
- brigandine ,
- buckler ,
- buffer ,
- bulletproof vest ,
- bury the hatchet ,
- campaign ,
- cannon ,
- cannonade ,
- carapace ,
- case ,
- casque ,
- casquetel ,
- circumscribe ,
- circumscription ,
- circumvent ,
- clog ,
- closure ,
- coat of mail ,
- collective noun ,
- come round ,
- concord ,
- confinement ,
- conquer ,
- cordon off ,
- cordoning ,
- cowcatcher ,
- cranes ,
- crusade ,
- cuirass ,
- culverin ,
- dress ,
- embrace ,
- encircle ,
- encirclement ,
- enclose ,
- enclosure ,
- encompass ,
- encompassing ,
- encompassment ,
- enfold ,
- envelop ,
- envelopment ,
- environ ,
- escalade ,
- estimation ,
- expedition ,
- face guard ,
- fence in ,
- fender ,
- field piece ,
- fire on ,
- fire upon ,
- fit ,
- gauntlet ,
- gird ,
- go ,
- gun ,
- habergeon ,
- hauberk ,
- head office ,
- headpiece ,
- heaume ,
- helm ,
- helmet ,
- herons ,
- howitzer ,
- immurement ,
- imprisonment ,
- incarceration ,
- inclusion ,
- infernal machine ,
- invade ,
- keep the peace ,
- machine gun ,
- mask ,
- military blockade ,
- mine ,
- mobilization ,
- morion ,
- mortar ,
- obsession ,
- occupy ,
- offence ,
- operations ,
- ordnance ,
- overwhelm ,
- park ,
- pen in ,
- petard ,
- pickelhaube ,
- piece ,
- pincer movement ,
- pompom ,
- quarantine ,
- sap ,
- seige ,
- seize ,
- seizure ,
- shako ,
- shell ,
- shield ,
- shut in ,
- spell ,
- subdue ,
- subjugate ,
- suffocate ,
- suppress ,
- surround ,
- swivel ,
- theater of operations ,
- thimble ,
- time ,
- torpedo ,
- turn ,
- vambrace ,
- vizor ,
- warpath .
- Gnawing ,
- Plaguing ,
- be set ,
- blockaded ,
- blockading ,
- nag ,
- put upon ,
- set upon ,
- sets upon ,
- siege ,
- sieged ,
- sieges ,
- sieging .
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
besieging.
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Noun, singular or mass
besieging, encirclement.
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Proper noun, singular
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Reverse Entailment
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Proper noun, singular
besieged.
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Verb, past tense
sieged.
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Proper noun, singular
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Independent
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Proper noun, plural
drains.
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Noun, singular or mass
assault, blockage, closure, stranglehold, takes.
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Verb, 3rd person singular present
encloses.
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Proper noun, plural
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
occupation.
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Noun, singular or mass
What are the hypernyms for Siege?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
blockade, bombardment, encirclement, investment.
Usage examples for Siege
The siege lasted two months.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
Seeing that we could not inflict dangerous wounds, our tactics were changed to a kind of siege, and we aimed not to permit the animal its breathing spells.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
The anarchists, on the other hand, had an energetic and eloquent leader in Peukert, a house-painter, who is now a chief personage in anarchist circles in London, and from here no doubt still carries on relations with his old friends; and their propaganda seems to be spreading, if we judge from the political trials, and from the fresh measures of repression directed against it in 1884, when Vienna was put under siege, and again in the latter part of 1888. They have nine or ten newspapers, and the socialists six or seven.
"Contemporary Socialism"
Famous quotes with Siege
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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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Now even the American command is under siege. We are hitting it from the north, east, south and west. We chase them here and they chase us there. But at the end we are the people who are laying siege to them. And it is not them who are besieging us.
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Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
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We remain essentially a nation under siege.
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One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
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